Steinbeck: Shameless leftist hack

A prolific writer and committed leftist exploiter, John Steinbeck used misfortune and misery to further his socialist agenda. There was a backlash to the book and movie, "Grapes of Wrath." The screen of one theater was destroyed by thrown bottles.

Viewing the movie in later years, I thought, "What a crock. I don't remember any of this." Arriving at Casa Grande Arizona, in early fall 1936, we turned a "rustic hovel" into a clean living space. I was off to school and the folks to the cotton field!

No "thugs with clubs" patrolled the camps where we lived -- not in Arizona, California or Oregon. There would have been post haste bloodletting. No "group dancing" observed.

We persevered and survived; sadly, we are now living under a budding socialist dictatorship. When society totally collapses, then likely, hell will come to breakfast.

I'm not an out of touch affluent, even though I can afford a steak dinner -- I'd just as soon have pinto beans, fried russet "taters" and corn bread, pork chop optional!

I'm proud to be a worker that produced, an original "Okie" born in Muskogee County. Y'all can have utopian socialism, I'll take freedom.

R.R. Williams, a retired sergeant of the California Highway Patrol, resides in Fortuna.